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16 Isn’t their prosperity already theirs?
The plans of the wicked are far from me.

17 “How often is the lamp of the wicked put out?
How often does their calamity come upon them?
How often does [God] deal out pain in his anger,
18 to make them like straw in the wind,
like chaff carried off by a storm?

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16 But their prosperity is not in their own hands,
    so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.(A)

17 “Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out?(B)
    How often does calamity(C) come upon them,
    the fate God allots in his anger?(D)
18 How often are they like straw before the wind,
    like chaff(E) swept away(F) by a gale?(G)

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